2»* S. IX. Jab. 28. 'GO.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



67 



book I read in early youth. I am ignorant -whether it is 

 altogether fictitious, "and written upon De Foe's plan, 

 which it greatly resembles, or whether it is only an ex- 

 aggerated account cf the adventures of a real person. It 

 is very scarce, for, endeavouring to add it to the other 

 favourites of my infancy, I think I looked for it ten years 

 to no purpose, and at last owed it to the active kindness 

 of Mr. Terry. Yet Richard Falconer's Adventures seem 

 to have passed through several editions." (Lockhart's 

 Life of Scott, ed. 1845, pp. 248. 305.) The work, how- 

 ever, is fictitious, and the production of William Rufus 

 Chetwood, who first kept a bookseller's shop in Covent 

 Garden, and became afterwards prompter to Drury Lane 

 Theatre.] 



MS. Literary Miscellanies. — Can you give 

 me any account of the following authors, whose 

 works are in the Harleiau MSS. ? 1. Geo. Bankes, 

 author of " Literary Miscellanies," 40.50. 2. An- 

 tony Parker, author of " Literary Miscellanies." 

 3. Stephen Millington, author of " Literary Mis- 

 cellanies." Could you also oblige me with any in- 

 formation reorardinar the dates, and the contents of 

 these volumes ? Zeta. 



[Harl. MS. 4050. is a small quarto paper book of 273 

 pages, besides some loose papers inserted in different 

 parts. It is the Common- place book on theological sub- 

 jects of George Bankes, who appears to have been presi- 

 dent of some college from the verses addressed to him at 

 fol. 136., and signed Potter. Cent. xvii. 



Harl. MS. 4048. is a paper book, 4to. of 160 pages, 

 written in English and Latin, and is the Common-place 

 book of Antony Parker. It is chiefly on subjects of divi- 

 nity, abstracts of sermons preached by various persons. 

 Cent. xvii. 



Harl. MS. 5748. is a paper 4to. book, consisting of 

 1. Godwyn's Roman Antiquities, translated, as it seems, 

 from the first edition, by Stephen Millington, 1641. 2. 

 Phrases collected out of the same book by the same 

 person. 3. Six Latin Declamations, each signed Steph. 

 Millington.] 



St. Cyprian. — Can you inform me whether 

 there is authority for supposing that St. Cyprian, 

 Bishop of Carthage and martyr, was a negro ? 



R. T. L. 



[The great St. Cyprian was born in Africa, and pro- 

 bably at Carthage, though on this latter point there is 

 some difference of opinion. He appears to have inherited 

 considerable wealth from his parents, and we find no 

 traces of any supposition that he was by birth a negro, 

 an i I' :i which may have arisen from his being termed by 

 •St. Jerome " Cyprianus Afer."] 



Benet Borcgiie. — Can you give me any in- 

 formation regarding Benet Borughc, author of 

 a poetical translation of Cicero's Cato Major 

 and Minor, Harleian MS. 110. What is the date 

 of the work ? Zeta. 



[The Harl. MS. 11G. is a parchment book, written by 

 different hands, in a small folio. The third article is 

 « Liber Minoris Catonis (fol. 9H.) et Majoris " (fol. 99.), 

 translatus a Latino in Anglicutn per Mag. lienet Borughe. 

 Then: is no date, but the MS. seems to be of the latter 

 part of the fifteenth century. ] 



ToPOGBAPHlCAi J'.m i ksion. — Has that por- 

 tion of the Lausdown MS. volume, No, 213., being 



the tour of three Norwich gentlemen through 

 various counties in 1634 and 163o, ever been 

 printed in extenso ? C. E. L. 



[The greater portion of this Itinerary will be found in 

 Brayley's Graphic Illustrator, 4to. 1834. The contribu- 

 tor states that " no alteration has been made in the lan- 

 guage, but the immaterial parts have been omitted, and 

 a few words of connexion occasionally introduced." The 

 long poem appended to the Itinerary is also omitted. An 

 extract relating to Robin Hood's Well is printed in our 

 2°dS. v i. 261.] 



ARCHIEPISCOPAL MITRE. 

 (2 nd S. viii. 248.) 



It is perhaps singular that no precise answer can 

 be given to your correspondent's Query, " How 

 it is that archbishops bear their mitre from within 

 a ducal coronet ? " 



The variation in the mode of bearing the mitre 

 observed between the metropolitans and the suf- 

 fragans, is of modern date. The illustrations 

 afforded by the paintings on glass which decorate 

 our ancient cathedrals, and the representations 

 upon the effigies and other portions of monumental 

 remains in those sacred edifices, placed in memory 

 of numerous ecclesiastical dignitaries, do not afford 

 any authority for a distinction between the mitres 

 of Archbishops and Bishops (with the exception 

 of the Bishops of the See of Durham), down to 

 the period of the Revolution. 



The Records of the College of Arms do not 

 supply a single authority for the mitres of the 

 Archbishops issuing from or placed within a Ducal 

 Coronet. An examination of the various instances 

 where mitres are depicted, will corroborate this 

 fact, and particularly those Records termed Funeral 

 Certificates, which contain many entries in refer- 

 ence to deceased Prelates, and to which the armo- 

 rial ensigns of their respective Sees, as well as, in 

 numerous cases, those of their paternal bearings 

 are attached. 



The last entry of a certificate taken upon the 

 death and burial of an Archbishop, is that of Gil- 

 bert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died 

 9th November, 1677 : it is certified and attested 

 by Sir William Dugdale, then Garter, and there 

 depicted are the arms of the See of Canterbury 

 surmounted by the episcopal mitre, without any 

 coronet. 



It is hardly credible that at this period any 

 authority for the coronet existed, or so experi- 

 enced an officer as Sir William Dugdale would 

 not only have known it, but have seen that the 

 record of his official act had been correctly made. 



The variation, therefore, in practice between 

 the metropolitan and suffragans must be traced 

 to a period subsequent to the death of Sheldon, 

 and is not probably of earlier date than the com- 

 mencement of the 19th century. 



